My TBR for June and Pride Month
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- June is coming, and that means it's time for my pile of possibilities for Pride Month! Come see what I've given myself to choose from and let me know what you'll be reading. Expand for more information. 👇
Further Viewing 🎥
Last Year’s Pile of Possibilities: • My Pride Month Pile of...
My Pulitzer Prize Reaction: • Pulitzer Prize for Fic...
Exciting Upcoming Book Releases (Featuring Cinema Love): • Exciting Upcoming Book...
Titles Mentioned 📚
All the World Beside, Garrard Conley: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805255...
Cantoras, by Carolina De Robertis: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805255...
A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White: bookshop.org/a/99775/97801431...
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Tóibín: bookshop.org/a/99775/97807432...
The Guncle Abroad, Steven Rowley: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
A Place Called Winter, Patrick Gale: bookshop.org/a/99775/97814555...
Tin Man, Sarah Winman: bookshop.org/a/99775/97807352...
Blackouts, Justin Torres: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803742...
Alec, William di Canzio: bookshop.org/a/99775/97812508...
The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr: bookshop.org/a/99775/97815524...
The Intoxicating Mr. Lavelle, Neil Blackmore: bookshop.org/a/99775/97817860...
The Town of Babylon, Alejandro Varela: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816626...
Pretty: A Memoir, KB Brookins: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
The Passing Playbook, Isaac Fitzsimons: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819848...
The Prospects, KT Hoffman: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
Heartstopper Volume 5, Alice Oseman: bookshop.org/a/99775/97813388...
Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800628...
Love in the Big City, Sang Young Park (translated by Anton Hur): bookshop.org/a/99775/97808021...
Mr. Loverman, Bernardine Evaristo: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816177...
Cinema Love, Jiaming Tang: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805934...
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Greg, many public libraries allow you to suspend your holds without losing your place in line. It’s a great feature, especially if you’re on vacation and don’t want to lose your hold. 😀
My pride reading for this year is: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey, The New Life by Tom Crewe, Boulder by Eva Baltasar, Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Adding Cantoras and The Prospects to the list. Thank you for the recommendations.
That's a good list. I enjoyed Boulders. Giovanni's Room is heavy but a masterpiece.
OMG, I can't believe you haven't read Boy's Own Story yet - I'm watching your vlogs for some time and I wouldn't expect you omitted it till now. Actually it's the first real LGBT book I've ever read - there were not some many options in small Polish city 15 years ago. I borrowed it from public library (I guess it wasn't banned from youth section because in Polish it has misleading title "Zuch" meaning "Scout" or "Brave Boy") and I love it. I've read it several times until they send me notification to bring it back. I bought it years later, read it again and it was still remarkable. Hope you will like it.
P.S. Tin Man looks great, I'm adding it to my TBR this June.
I can't really believe it's been taking me so long to get to Edmund White either.
Love Patrick Gale's novels and my favourite is definitely Take Nothing With You where the audio was fantastic. Would recommend The Heather Blazing, one of Colm Toibin's earlier novels, for an introduction to his world. Do, do read Tin Man!
Tjanks for the recommendations! I'm reading Tin Man now.
Please read Cantoras! It’s so good and I definitely think is a “Greg” book.
Ooh, that’s good to know. Thanks.
I love your pride month videos SO much - you've helped me discover so much good, nourishing queer writing and I'm i ncredibly grateful! it's how I found your channel (and then stuck around for all your other amazing reviews and content).
That means so much--thank you! 🌈 🥂
Paul Monette. I don't know which book you were considering but Becoming a Man and Borrowed Time are both MANDATORY! They will change your life. Enjoy
Thanks for the recommendations. Becoming a Man is the one I own a copy of.
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! JUST READ KATHY ACKERS BIO AND SOME OF HER BOOK. NOW RE-READIÑG MARY GAITSKILL NOW. LOVE QUEER WRITING AND THE LIBRARY IS LITERALLY MY SECOND HOME. LOVE YOU❤
Sounds like you have some great reading going on!
We have quite a bit of overlap in our piles! 😉 Mr Loverman, Tin Man, Cinema Love, All the World Beside and Heartstopper are what I marked as having in common. I also have The New Life, Siren Queen and Flamer. Good luck and happy reading in June! 💜🌈💛
Happy reading in June! I look forward to comparing notes on whatever we finish in common.
You 👏🏼 have 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 read 👏🏼 Mr Loverman 👏🏼 It’s so good. ❤
I'll try to make it happen!
Tin Man is a book I've been meaning to read since it came out, I don't even know why I kept putting it off. Blackout is on my physical TBR for months and I keep choosing other books. Maybe I should use June to finally read them. Good luck with all of these books.
Thanks! Good luck with whatever you choose to read this month! Pride is a good excuse to catch up on Tin Man and Blackouts. I’m reading Tin Man now and really liking it.
Tin Man is one of my all time faves. Sarah Winman writes in this frank but profound style: 'The old house was filled with religion but very little light to read' The whole pile looks great. I've been eyeing 'In Memoriam' but it's already setting up to be a sad book summer. 🏳️🌈
Sad book summer should be a thing.
What a fabulous pile of possibilities! I will be particularly curious to hear how do you get on with Sleeping Car Porter and A Place Called Winter! 💕🏳️🌈💕🏳️🌈
We'll see what I manage to cram in! 🌈 ❤️ 🥂
Just ordered Felix Ever After as a gift for my friend's son. I think he is going to love this book, thanks for talking about it.
I hope he loves it!
I think I'll read Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson for Pride Month. I've never read a gay history book. I know. I love under a rock.
I imagine a lot of people have never read a gay history. I hope you enjoy Lavender Scare!
Our PoP overlap is Tin Man, Alec and Blackouts, which Angelia/Read & Reread and I plan to do as a buddy read hopefully at the start of the month. Pretty I have on hold, but I don’t think it would lol come up in June, I really enjoyed their poetry collection earlier this year.
That sounds like a good plan! I look forward to your thoughts on Blackouts.
@@SupposedlyFun Greg, no pressure but if you'd like to join our Blackouts buddy read, let us know! We will be reading it around the beginning of the month, whenever Michael's library copy comes up. 😊
I loved Loverman! I hope the tv series based on it will be good.
I didn’t know there’s a series! Thanks for the heads up.
Here’s my recommendation for you, Greg (and Joel). READ TIN MAN! This June! Just do it! Please?
I’m going to try! 😆
I’ve been adding to my June pile of possibilities for the past week from books I already own. For June on the Range I have a Zane Grey and a Louis L’amour. Because I am going to Ireland in July I have Milkman. I am in two bookclubs, but I am not sure what those will be yet.
Everything else will be queer for Pride month. I have two EM Forster books including Maurice. My biggest stretch will be a fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. I’ve heard it’s good from people who enjoy fantasy but it’s the first in a series and I’m not a series girlie. Give me a good standalone.
I’ll probably hit up my library or used bookstore for a short Oscar Wilde play. We got tickets to see his house when we’re in Dublin and I’ve not even read his work yet!
I’ve heard good things about She Who Became the Sun. And you can definitely read Wilde’s plays quickly (I’ve read An Ideal Husband). I hope you enjoy Ireland! I’m in an airport for my connecting flight home and we had a blast.
@@SupposedlyFun Awe, I’m sad your trip is nearly over. It goes by so quickly.
We reached the point where we were ready to go home, but it was a wonderful trip.
I am going to read Guncle and Tin Man in June. I promised to give you my thoughts on Blackouts…I read it twice. The first time I liked it but felt kind of lost with it. I’m straight and maybe that was part of it. Then I tried reading it while listening to the audio… oh my gosh. The audio is so beautiful. Having two voices helped me so much. In fact, I’m thinking of listening to the audio again. That would make three reads. I might never truly understand it all, but I found it beautiful.
That’s very interesting because I have been told by several people not to do the audio. We’ll see how it goes!
@@SupposedlyFun how funny. The audio made me weep at times. People are very different aren’t they?
That’s the truth!
This is a fantastic pile of possibilities! I have read and enjoyed several of these. I already have Blackouts on my TBR. I'm also looking forward to The Guncle Abroad!
I’m so excited to get home to Guncle Abroad.
Great list! Hoping you can finally knock off one or two of the classics whose continued looming presence makes you feel "shocked, appalled, and disappointed" in yourself or like you are "failing at life". 😜📚
Me too! 😂🤣😬
Oh, boy, adding a bunch of these to my tbr list! Thanks for this! 💚
I hope you enjoy any of the ones you pick up!
OMG, read Cantoras! Such a beautiful book! ❤
I really want to!
Happy Pride! 👋🏻😃🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈👍🏻
Happy Pride!
If I had to choose just one book from this video to tell you to prioritize, it would be Cantoras! I read that book last year and really loved it - I think I put it in my top 15 of the year!
I'm hoping I'll finally get to it!
I'm going to start The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle this weekend. Then it's either The Guncle Abroad or Don't Cry for Me, depending on whether I want to go light or heavy.
Brooklyn is an excellent book and movie. You should read the book before you watch the movie.
Mr Loverman was fantastic and Tin Man is one of my favorite books ❤ I hope you read both of them! All of my queer reads for June are of the sapphic sort for once and I’m totally here for it!
I love the sapphic theme! I'm reading Tin Man now.
@@SupposedlyFun ohhh that book!!!! You know I did a review of it and praised how much I enjoyed it and she sent me a signed copy all the way from the UK - this was years ago. I just was super touched by that bc my reviews aren’t all that lol!!! 😂 I totally enjoyed Still Life by her as well. A much slower burn and a much longer story that made me pine for a sweet unconventional artistic life in Florence Italy, which she describes so well it’s more than a setting it’s like a whole vibe….! Looking forward to your thoughts on Tin Man. I’m flying thru a fantasy story currently which I haven’t done in years - called When The Moon Hatched and it’s so fiercely feminist and has dragons and characters with fluid sexuality… I’m already on page 413 and I’m just loving it. I think I’m going to read Rainbow Black next!!!
@@Phillybookfairy How cool of her to send you a signed copy!
@@SupposedlyFun it was mega cool. 😎
Tin Man is an absolute favorite and All The World Beside is also excellent! The Blackwater Lightship is good, it’s just not what I wanted. Thats on my though not the book. Still a good read!
I’m planning on reading Devotion by Hannah Kent, Cinema Love, and finishing Blackouts by Justin Torres.
I’m also planning to reread a Paul Monette. Probably Halfway Home. It’s killing me you’ve not read him yet! 😂
I'm reading Tin Man right now!
I know I am late to the game but I will prioritize The Guncle for Pride Pride Month. I am currently reading Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester and am finding it quite fascinating.
Thanks for mentioning Nothing Ever Just Disappears. It's available at my library, and I just requested it, thanks to your comment. 🌈
Nothing Ever Just Disappears really does sound fascinating.
I tried to save Boulder by Eva Baltasar for June but when my library hold came up I couldn't stop myself. Pretty sure you've read that one. I LOVED it. I will probably read (at least) Mr. Loverman. Greg, do yourself a favor and read The Sleeping Car Porter. It is a beautiful, moving, visceral book. I predict (not for the first time) that you will love it.
Adding a bunch of these to my June Pile of Possibilities. BTW, I read Angela's Ashes and loved it! Edited to add: I listened to this video while sewing last-minute additions to my kid's dance recital costumes. I was stressed. The video was really calming. Thanks!
I'm glad you found the video calming! I hope the recital went well. And I'm so glad you loved Angela's Ashes!
Hi Greg I am going to read A Place Called Winter in June. Tin Man is such a good book as is Mr Loverman.
Hi Greg! Really liked your channel and have read some of your recommendations. Maybe for the pile of possibilities for next year (or even at some point of the rest of the year) I recommend Eva Baltasar's books (they are very short and engaging), On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, and Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart.
I've read Baltasar's Boulder and really liked it. I was a little muted when it came to On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Young Mungo--but Shuggie Bain is a favorite.
Thank you for the list! Will definitely read one for Pride Month.
I love a good themed POP list. Found three for my TBR and a few I’ll be waiting to hear what you think if you get to them.
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Blackwater Lightship is also a movie, it's on UA-cam here
I didn’t know that-thanks!
I’ve read 7 on your list. I have a copy of The Sleeping Car Porter and still have not read it. Because June is also #juneontherange, I have a novel about gay cowboys
The Men From Echo Creek by NR Walker
A version of Frankenstein
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Follow The Van by Jackson Marsh (3rd in the Delamere Files series)
I’ve downloaded lots of samples on kindle of books like
Evenings and Weekends by Oisin ( osh-sheen) McKenna
Blackouts by Justin Torres
To see if the writing captures my interest.
Books with gay themes I’ve read in the past 5 months that I would recommend
Leeward by Katie Daysh
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth 🇮🇪
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Get to Love in the Big City ASAP. A movie adaptation starring Korean actors will be released soon.
That’s good to know-thanks.
Keep up the great work 👍👍
Thank you!
I’ve had Tin Man for awhile as well, hoping to finally get to it in June. I also plan on reading Giovanni’s Room. I keep hearing about Cinema Love- great cover.
Cinema Love has a great cover both in the US and in the UK. I'm reading Tin Man now!
I plan to start reading “The Guncle Abroad” this weekend. I just finished and enjoyed the newly published “In Tongues” by Thomas Gratton about a young gay man trying to find his path in life after moving to New York City.
Cantoras yep!
Heyy Greg, which Colm Toibin book should I start with?😅
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All the World Beside was really good. Edmund White is a queer literary elder.
I really need to read Edmund White soon!
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How do I get that shirt?
I think I found it in a Barnes & Noble two years ago, but I’m not sure-and I’m not home yet to check the tag.
@SupposedlyFun am in Billings this weekend for my nephew's graduation so will run over there and look to see if maybe they have one. My best friend Pete and I get a new pride shirt every year and I think we must have that one this year!!!
Re: Cantoras…you simply won’t find a better lesbian novel. It’s ruined so many sapphic books for me because they just can’t reach the prose and maturity of Cantoras.
That's a great selling point! Thanks.